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Men walk past the official logo of the WEF inside the Congress Hall at the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos

A short history of wildly inaccurate predictions made at Davos

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Fiscally Speaking
5/17

CBO compares the Obama and congressional budget plans

Oxpeckers
5/17
4 Sources

"Sponsored Content Pretty Fucking Awesome"

The Fed
5/17
2 Sources

Why the US and Europe need a tad more inflation

New Normal
5/17
5 Sources

Why the housing market continues to disappoint: supply-side issues

Helpful Reiminders
5/17
2 Sources

Americans say a family of four needs nearly $60,000 per year to get by

Black market
5/17

Argentina is considering amnesty for those who launder money through its banks

Valuations
5/17
1 Sources

No one is sure if this mansion listed at $190 million is actually worth that much

Alpha
5/17
1 Sources

Bill Ackman is investing in a $90 million New York penthouse

TBTF
5/16
2 Sources

The idea that you can wind down a failing megabank in some orderly fashion is probably a myth

EU Mess
5/16
3 Sources

It's banks that are killing Europe, not simply austerity

EU Mess
5/16
3 Sources

Europe's Central Bank now even wronger on inflation

The Oracle
5/16
7 Sources

S&P has downgraded Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway

Growth Industries
5/16
4 Sources

The US government expects to make $51 billion from student loans this year

Fiscally Speaking
5/16
2 Sources

The CBO is still likely over-estimating future deficits

Oxpeckers
5/16
3 Sources

The New Yorker welcomes your anonymous leaks (but still won't publish your sonnets)

Housing
5/16
1 Sources

Is there a price-fixing scandal brewing in the oil market?

Tumblr, and its cool-kid status, may be worth $1 billion to Yahoo

"The current Chairman of J.P. Morgan should be run out of town on a rail"

Greek shipping magnates are not really feeling the whole economic depression thing